The Black Madonna. infectious (laughter)

A Christmas Song

to long for

distinction

to earn one’s reward

a travel guide

a chameleon

to ripple, rippling

infectious (laughter)

stained glass

to overlook smth

to turn up

a lime tree

to get away with

to bite one’s lip

to hum

to blurt out

carol

insult

bar

ardent

to snap out of it

blinds

to fidget with smth

a latch

a catch

to fumble for

to fumble in one’s purse

sulky

chestnut

to ignite

shrieks of laughter

Wistful, Delicately Gay

provocative

indulgent

malicious

to be entitled to do smth

hardboiled

affectionate

a demolished smile

delicately gay

adolescence

to be full of merit

hardheaded

to dissipate (energies)

to display no grudges

to turn down

to feel one’s way

inadequate, inadequacy

to make room for

faultless

mischievous

obsession

to give a reputation (egotism, harshness)

wistful

pathos

romance

fastidious

wary

lovelorn

to jump at

to play the lead

infatuation

to come up

to deviate

devotion

shrewdly

conceit

to go through with smth

lightweight

to give notice

to fall over oneself

to show off (to a better advantage)

to come off

supporting part

to take off

hazard

navy-blue

to catch smb by surprise

to hold up

demented

THE Catbird Seat

to rub out

imprecision

cautious

painstaking

to have a head for

to keep one’s mind on

peccadillo

sustain

fallible

studious

tolerance

to resume

willful (BrE), wilful (AmE)

blatant

to bring out the best in smb

to drive smb to (distraction)

there and then

to chip at the cornices

to yell

to bray

to bawl

obscene

(death) penalty

to puff

to brag

casualness

to feel elated

to bounce out

delusion of persecution

imprecation

surreptitious, -ly

substantiate

enchanted

temperate habits

in an unseemly manner

discreet, -ly

to flow into a rage

to make for

indispensable

The Unvexed Isles

unthrifty

pious

abstraction

in one’s regard

to relish

irrevocable

to serve all right

to loiter

affable

to reach for

to wager on smth

to deplore

vigor, vigour

sleek

to turn about

intricacy

rehearsal

a man of the world

remote, -ly

likewise

to fancy oneself

tailor-made clothes

to be a rotten sailor

fender

perversity, perverse

engrossed in

on the instant

foreclose a mortgage

to take comfort

to make amends (to smb for smth)

for fear

finicky, finical

warily

to tread

a treacherous (path)

insufficiency, sense of ~

to maintain one’s self-respect

to do a favour

to take form

margin

to be tempted

to relax one’s attention

pretentious

homesick, -ness

unvexed

to be a martyr to, martyrdom

at length

Portrait of a Girl in Glass

Typewriter keyboard

to get under way

to keep a secret

stunning

disclosure

to stalk

off-key

to take smb by surprise

soothing

fortuitously

to be conceited about smth

to have a date

to be on good terms with

to sneak up

sanctuary

to set one’s heart on (beside) smth

up-and-coming man

to be cut out for smth

to be smb’s best bet

to run out of talk

freckles

everlasting

to let the cat out of the bag

to give (the news) away

dismal (tone)

to be fired for

warehouse

The Black Madonna

a veil

domer window

to adhere

(quite) the thing

to qualify for

to be alive to

to have one’s way

defiant

to abandon

to be under a strain

to drop stitches (in one’s knitting), to take up ~

to make objections

to put one’s finger on

to apply for promotion

to put down the money for smth

to come to light

to look flustered

short-sighted

in a flurry

contemporary

superstition

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